LE

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
“Nobody's slave, nobody's tyrant” - Generallöjtnant Jakob Albrekt von Lantingshausen
"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato

LE

Yup, the thing about "right size" government is that we have no spare capacity or surplus bodies to fill in the gaps when they start to present themselves. So when the "essential personal" label is given to a person they are screwed and you can't escape it.

ADC

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'" -Unknown
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf - George Orwell
Si vis pacem, para bellum